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Illustrating Chinese Dragon - Part 1March 13, 2008 in Artwork, Tutorials by Vyoma | 1 comment

Software: Inkscape (or other vector graphics software)Level: AdvancedSubject: Chinese Dragon

Dragon Workshop: Head (http://kalaalog.com/2007/12/13/how-to-draw-a-dragon-head/) | Body(http://kalaalog.com/2007/12/16/how-to-draw-a-dragon-body/) | Scales(http://kalaalog.com/2008/01/03/how-to-draw-dragon-scales/) | Wings(http://kalaalog.com/2008/01/10/how-to-draw-dragon-wings/) | Limbs And Talons(http://kalaalog.com/2008/01/24/how-to-draw-dragon-limbs-and-talons/) | Horns And Other Addons(http://kalaalog.com/2008/01/27/how-to-draw-dragon-horns-and-other-addons/) | More…(http://kalaalog.com/tutorials/dragon-workshop/)

This is less of a tutorial and more of a walk-through of creating a vector illustration of a Chinese dragon. I will be applying several techniques, which are posted earlier.

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As with most of the artworks, I start roughing out different ideas, and then settle on one. After that, a definite lineart is created.

VECTOR SHAPES


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After importing the lineart into Inkscape, the basic bulk of the dragon shape is created.


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MORE OUTLINES


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Sending the base shape behind the imported image, more smaller parts are outlined.

All similar parts are given same color.


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Once, one set of smaller shapes are completed, the remaining parts are done. You may need to bringthe imported line art to the front, as and when you complete drawing a part.

Notice how the darker base shape, becomes an outline as the smaller shapes are drawn.


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At this point in time, I play around a bit with the color composition, and settle on a green + yellow +red color scheme.

Be sure to choose the proper colors at this stage itself, because next, a large number of shapes will be drawn in order to detail the illustration.

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